daddy longlegs
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Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was looking through a microscope at the embryo of a daddy longlegs when he saw it — or, rather, saw them.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024
If there’s one defining trait of daddy longlegs, it has to be their legs.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2021
Most memorable was the state campground somewhere in Iowa with the very tall grass and daddy longlegs everywhere.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021
But it was nothing to be afraid of, they were daddy longlegs.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2019
Considering it, I continued: “Two. Daddy longlegs have eight legs. Therefore, three, daddy longlegs must be spiders.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
